NATO’s ability to gather information and fuse intelligence from multiple sources over space, air, sea and land has just reached an important milestone. On Wednesday (10 February 2016), the NATO Secretary General welcomed the statement by Defense Ministers on the Initial Operating Capability for Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
“We, the Allied Defense Ministers, have today declared the initial operational capability for NATO's Joint, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance initiative. This achievement follows up to the commitments that our nations made at the Chicago Summit and subsequently reaffirmed at the Wales Summit.” the Ministers declared, stressing that “JISR will maximize the resources we have at hand already, both in NATO and in individual Allies: enhanced inter-connectivity across our system, more training and expertise among our personnel, and lead to better procedures for information handling and sharing. All these improvements will ultimately contribute to a better informed and more watchful Alliance. JISR stands ready to support rapid decision making across several major lines of effort, including the Readiness Action Plan, our strategy on hybrid warfare, and our overall deterrence posture.”
Providing the right information to decision-makers and action-takers is vital for all military operations. While surveillance and reconnaissance can answer the questions “what,” “when” and “where”, the combined information from various intelligence sources and disciplines provide the answers to “how” and “why.” When all of this is combined, you create Joint ISR. NATO JISR has just reached the Initial Operational Capability (IOC) that means promoting and enabling data sharing within the NATO Response force.
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1. (00:00) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – LUDWIG DECAMPS – Director, Armament and Aerospace Capabilities, Defense Investment Division at NATO
“The data that are coming from a variety of systems that can be satellites that can be troops on the ground, that can also be unmanned aircrafts, doing surveillance missions and so on. So combining this all in a format that allow us to share data coming from these various sources and also to exploit the data, make the data usable to the military commanders, that really at the hart of the Joint ISR”.”IOC stands for on our jargon for Initial Operation Capability and it is the first quality step in what we are trying to achieve that is scope in promoting data sharing and facilitating enabling data sharing with it the NATO Response Force and that has been achieved as of this year with the NATO Response Force composed of the Land Component Command provided by Spain, the Air Component Command provided by Italy, Maritime Component United Kingdom and Special Forces provided by the United States”.
2. (01:04) SHOT – Landing of the first of five NATO Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) after the first flight in California on the 19 December 2015.
3. (01:11) SHOT – In flight NATO Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) aircraft.
4. (01:16) VARIOUS SHOTS – From multinational NATO’s exercises.
5. (01:33) VARIOUS SHOTS – From the NATO JISR animation (included in this package).
6. (01:52) VARIOUS SHOTS – Italian deployable command.
7. (01:59) VARIOUS SHOTS – From the NATO JISR animation (included in this package).
8. (02:07) SHOT – Of U.S. Special Forces.
9. (02:12) VARIOUS SHOTS – From Unified Vision 14 trial, NATO’s test of ISR capabilities held in Norway in May 2014.
10. (02:30) VARIOUS SHOTS – From multinational NATO’s exercises.
11. (02:07) VARIOUS SHOTS – Of Eurofighter Jets during training flights in the Italian air base of Grosseto.
12. (02:58) VARIOUS SHOTS – From the Royal Navy.
13. (02:58) WIDE SHOT – Of U.S. Special Forces.
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